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ID number: BIRBI-B2587 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Kyzikos Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Mysia, Kyzikos Culture: Byzantine Date made: 605-606 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 12.28 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1651. Glendining, 3rd May 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. A cross in the l. of the field. Reverse: XXXX.
Inscriptions: Obverse: … N FOCAS PЄRP AVC (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO IIII (Year 4). Mint mark: KYZ. Control mark: B (2).
Bibliography: MIB II 76
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